Quotes about Education
Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new.
The history of philosophy is in large measure the history of very smart people making very tempting mistakes, and if you don`t know the history, you are doomed to making the same darn mistakes all over again.
Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.
High-income people spend a lot more than do average people on education and retirement savings. If we were trying to get clues about good gifts from what the rich do, then we should give people education and future consumption.
Kids who don`t eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
You don`t have to teach people to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
I consider that a man`s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.